are you looking for fresh ideas to save money then this video is for you what's up guys I'm
Chris and welcome back to the channel where you talk about investing real estate and saving
money to help you guys achieve financial freedom the very first thing I don't buy to save money
is coffee you might have heard this so many times do not buy starbucks and yes it's not gonna make
you a millionaire if you stop buying starbucks however it's the habit of buying starbucks that's
wasting your money as David Bach said in his book The Latte Factor small amounts of money
spent on a regular basis cost us far more than we can imagine if you're regularly wasting your
money on starbucks then most likely you're regularly wasting your money on little things
elsewhere and besides coffee is the most rip-off product out there because you can make it at home
for 20 to 30 cents but if you buy it at a cafe it will cost you around five dollars the next thing
I don't spend money on is gym membership this is something I never thought I would do because
I was regularly working out two to three times a week at our hospital gym and it wasn't expensive
it was around fourteen dollars per fortnight however this thing happened that affected
all of us we went into strict lockdown and that just destroyed my routine going to the gym and
so with the help of kettlebells and Chloe Ting I am saving 364 dollars per year working out at home
another thing I don't buy anymore are books don't get me wrong I love books I love reading I love
reading from an actual book rather than an ebook however books can be expensive especially if you
read a lot of them and I'm lucky because we have a good library system here in New Zealand
every suburb has their own library and for me it's walking distance from my house and if a specific
book isn't in your suburb they will order it from a different library deliver it to your library and
that's all free the next thing I don't buy anymore is printer and printer ink so we used to have a
printer it was sitting in our kitchen cupboard for four years and we donated it because we weren't
using it anymore and the biggest reason for that is because printer ink can be really expensive
sometimes it's even more expensive than the actual printer itself it doesn't make sense to me but I
guess it's profit for the company and besides everything can be done electronically these days
when buying properties I sign sales and purchase agreement and i do all that digitally and in the
rare occasion that I need something printed again I go to my local library because 10 pages per day
is free another thing I don't spend money on are haircuts both for me and my husband I've cut his
hair for many many years now and he's happy with it we bought electric clippers for around 30 35 dollars
and that's also the price for a haircut here in New Zealand so if you're a man and you're getting
a haircut once a month at 30 dollars you are saving 360 dollars per year if you do it or if you
let someone else do it for you for me personally I trim my own hair just to keep it healthy
and it looks alright right it looks um level it's my personal mantra that you can always learn new
things and think new thoughts and I think cutting hair is one of the easier things you can learn
from Youtube one thing I don't buy anymore are puppies no I'm just kidding she just
wants attention that's why I'm carrying her so the other thing that I don't buy anymore are expensive
trendy gadgets ever since it came out in 2016 the apple air pods I've never bought it because
they're expensive they're over $200 and I know a couple people who've either lost them or left them
in their pockets and it went into the laundry and that's your $200 down the drain maybe I'll get one
in the future when what I'm currently using will be obsolete but until then I'm happy with what I
have and I'll save my two hundred dollars another good example of a trendy gadget that I don't buy
is smartphones so I bought my iPhone 8 last year when the latest model was an iPhone 10
something like that and you don't need to buy the latest technology when society tells you to do it
because usually there's very little difference from last year's model to this year and your
iPhone can actually last you for around five years if you take really good care of it and
that's my personal rule I need to keep my iPhone for at least five years because they're expensive
and I want to get my money's worth another thing I don't buy anymore are trendy clothes
I have to be honest I'm still a girl I love fashion and i love wearing nice clothes however I
realize I have everything that I need in my closet I just re-wear the clothes I love again and again
and I don't mind when people notice because I'm sending a good message out there that it's okay
to re-wear your clothes I hate consumerism and I hate the environmental impacts of fast fashion
usually these clothes don't last very long because they're very low quality and most of the clothes
that you donate to charity end up in landfill as well because there's just too many of them
statistics show that women on average spend 150 to 400 US dollars per month on clothes so if
you go for a year without buying anything you're saving four thousand and eight hundred dollars
Coco is getting really heavy but I don't have a choice because she's making so much noise if I
don't give her any attention the next thing on my list is bottled water and soda I can't remember
the last time I bought bottled water because I just don't and we also don't buy soda whenever
we're eating out eating out already costs a lot of money and if you put soda on top of that it's even
more expensive I'm lucky because I love cold water and water is free here in New Zealand I just bring
my water bottle everywhere I go with me so that I don't buy bottled water or soda we also don't buy
soda whenever we go grocery shopping we save it for special occasions like for
parties not only are we saving money but we're also being healthy by not consuming
a lot of sugar into our body next thing that I don't buy anymore are single-use period products
and makeup wipes so the reusable makeup wipes are actually cheap however the period products are not
so this is an example of you need to spend money in order to save money my biggest
motivation behind this is the amount of rubbish that ends up in landfill the product I use
is a period underwear it's from a company called Love Luna they're $17 each and i have three of them
statistics show that women spend an average of $13.25 cents per month on period products
and that's 160 dollars per year so if you buy the reusable products you are saving 160 dollars per
year of your reproductive years what are other ways that you guys are saving money comment them
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